1) Create a dynamic project in Eclipse ( used here is STS- Spring Source Toolsuite)
2) Jars needed: Place them in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
spring-webmvc
spring.jar
spring-context.jar
commons-logging.jar
jstl.jar
3) Create a controller in the src directory.
package com.yogi.test.Controller; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
@Controller public class TestController { @RequestMapping("/HelloWorld.htm") protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request, HttpSession session) throws Exception { return new ModelAndView("helloworld.jsp"); } }
4) Update web.xml
<?xmlversion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>MySpringMVC</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>MySpringMVC</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>MySpringMVC</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
5) Creat the application context in WEB-INF (in this case MySpringMVC-servlet.xml)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd">
<!--====================================================-->
<!-- URL Handler Mappings-->
<!--++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<bean id="urlMapping"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="alwaysUseFullPath" value="true"/>
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/HelloWorld.htm">helloWorldController</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<!--====================================================-->
<!-- View Resolver -->
<!--++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<bean id="view-Resolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass">
<value>org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="helloWorldController" class="com.yogi.test.Controller.TestController" />
</beans>6) Create JSP in Web-Content
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
MY FIRST SPRING MVC APPLICATION.
</body>
</html>
7) Build and Run the application. (Right click and click on Run As --> Run on Server)
8) The package explorer should look something like this:
